{"id":8635,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:51","slug":"ontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/metaphysics\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/metaphysics\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">metaphysics<\/a> concerned with the nature of things (i.e., with &#8216;being&#8217;) or the subject of existence. &nbsp;It differentiates between reality and appearance, and investigates the various ways in which entities belonging to different logical categories (e.g., numbers, physical objects) may be said to exist. &nbsp;It is sometimes confused with epistemology, another branch of metaphysics concerned with knowing and knowledge (i.e., &#8216;becoming&#8217;). &nbsp;Ontology was revived in the early 20th century by <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/husserl\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/husserl\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmund Husserl<\/a> (1859-1938) and others who promoted the study of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/existentialism\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/existentialism&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">existentialism<\/a> and phenomenology. &nbsp;Subsequently, it became a defining feature of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/analytic%20philosophy\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/analytic%20philosophy&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">analytic philosophy<\/a> through the writings of people like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/quine-sc\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.iep.utm.edu\/quine-sc\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Van Orman Quine<\/a> (1908-2000). &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"appearance-reality_distinction\">Appearance-reality distinction<\/a>, <a href=\"developmental_epistemology\">Developmental epistemology<\/a>, <a href=\"dualism\">Dualism<\/a>, <a href=\"hermeneutics_-and_phenomenology-\">Hermeneutics (and phenomenology)<\/a>, <a href=\"monism\">Monism<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature of things (i.e., with &#8216;being&#8217;) or the subject of existence. &nbsp;It differentiates between reality and appearance, and investigates the various ways in which entities belonging to different logical categories (e.g., numbers, physical objects) may be said to exist. &nbsp;It is sometimes confused with epistemology, another branch of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/ontology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ontology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}